Late-night TV on Trump: 'The wheels are off the wagon and hurtling toward the moon'

He started by going back to discuss Trump’s previous statement where he claimed to think all of the white nationalists marching were at fault. “You know it was the right thing to say because he hated saying it,” he said.

But then Tuesday happened. “When he was supposed to be taking about highway infrastructure, Donald Trump drove America’s moral leadership right through the guardrails,” he said.

While the majority of people criticized his ranting, he had one defender in the shape of the former imperial wizard of the Klu Klux Klan. “David Duke complimenting your courage, that’s like Jeffrey Dahmer complimenting your cooking,” he said.

On Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host retold the brief history of Trump’s response since the Charlottesville violence. In his initial statement, where he said the problems came from “many sides”, he then refused to take a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta, labelling him fake news.

“Oh my God, fake news again – get a new comeback,” he said. “Stop trying to make fetch happen.”

He then spoke about Trump’s increasingly deranged behavior on Twitter in the past week. “Twitter is tailor-made for Donald Trump,” he said. “You can say anything you want, you have to use small words, you can block people you don’t like and you can do it all on the toilet.”

Meyers joked: “He has 36 million followers – or, if you ask him, he has 300 million followers.”

On Tuesday, Trump claimed that there were “fine people” who were marching alongside Nazis. “No one gets accidentally caught up in a white supremacist rally,” he said.

Meyers then played footage from Friday of marchers chanting about Jews replacing them. “I don’t know everything about Robert E Lee, but I don’t think he was worried about being replaced by a Jewish general,” he said.

Part of Trump’s defense included him stating that the initial group actually had a permit. “Oh the Nazis had a permit well, fuck me I’m sorry!” Meyers said. “Also of course they had a permit, they’re Nazis. Nazis’ main thing is having your papers, that’s like the one thing they’re good at.”

He continued: “Is Donald Trump a racist? I’ll let you decide yes for yourself.” Meyers then doubled down: “He showed us again who he really is: a lying racist who’s desperate for praise.”